[alsa-devel] dont knw what this error means

Lee Revell rlrevell at joe-job.com
Thu Apr 5 23:49:25 CEST 2007


On 4/5/07, Ashlesha Shintre <ashlesha.shintre at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am getting the following error when I try to playback a raw sample file:
>
> "ALSA lib pcm.c:7216snd_pcm_set_params) Unable to get period size for
> PLAYBACK: Invalid argument"
>
> Does anyone know what this means?

It means exactly what it says - an invalid parameter was passed to the
function which sets the period size.

It's impossible to tell what could be wrong without source code.

Lee


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